i don't know if this belongs here or somewhere else cause it don't know if anyone here watches smallville but here is the article
People magazine broke the news first unless an earlier claim
surfaces:
http://www.people.com/people/article...045784,00.html
She'd been discussed as a possibility on Kryptonsite and the
poster had given the URL to this IMDb picture:
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/hh/08888...html?path=pgal...
That's not the picture they used in the People article, and I think
it's just as well because the one above is pretty much perfect
and impossible to live up to. The People one makes her look
more plausible including Kara having the crush on Jimmy.
After the Kryptonsite poster suggested her I made a post to the
SV+ Smallville Resurgence thread here less than two weeks ago
commenting. Here's what I wrote then:
"That's a direct URL to one of her pictures, the best and most
Kara-evoking one. The others not quite so much, but when you
first click that picture above and see it, your reaction might be
(like mine), that she's impossibly beautiful and they've got their
Kara sign her up. A few Kryptonsite posters had that reaction.
Her main IMDb page is here:
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0888882/
But then you think about it, and realize that the perfect picture
of a beautiful actress isn't necessarily what you want to base
this casting decision on..."
(Not saying they just based it on that, but I hadn't and haven't
seen her act.)
Gough says in the People article, of Kara and/or Vandervoort
it's not entirely clear from the context but presumably it's both:
"She's a combination of beauty, intelligence, a certain warmth,
and great attitude..." They saw "hundreds" of actresses and
"found perfection" (People's word -- also tough to live up to :-)) in Vandervoort. "She was speechless but she was very excited," Gough says of Vandervoort's reaction to the news.